A Test of Faith | Iglesia Cristiana Ebenezer de la Ciudad de Mexico

Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:22

... God is with you, the precious Holy Spirit is with you, it manifests in your life in your obedience to your offerings, the day that you run out of strength to keep going and you do not have hope, maybe you get a dark or uncertainty or discouragement or sadness or loneliness ... but God says: "... FEAR NOT ..." because I ahuyentaré the plundering of your offerings, "... DO NOT FEAR ..." For the day you bring your offerings simple or heavy I am with you and multiply you "... NO ISSUES ..." yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness, even when you pass through the oven because the oven steaming means test, ie passes the test when I am with you "... NO ISSUES ... "! ...

Genesis 15.5-21

Just to mention Abram (or later Abraham) involves a series of recognitions and affirmations of precepts and biblical and theological concepts very important for our life force even in the XXI century. Just by the fact of seeing and searching one's own life of this patriarch (perhaps most important) throws us for our reflection very important points of which only redeem two: first, that salvation is not just for Jews but for anyone who believes in the author and finisher of salvation, and second that the blessing of eternal life, salvation is by grace through believing, by faith.

So if you departed for from the very beginning of history, we would like Abram (first named "father is exalted") was born in Ur of the Chaldeans (ie what would later become Babylon, now Iraq), he was the son of Terah, Nahor and Haran's brother, Uncle Lot, husband of Sarah, father of Isaac, the Patriarch of Israel. It was the first Hebrew, because Hebrew means "the crosses", "spanners". Abram was given the order, received directly from God: "Go from your country and your kindred to the land I will show you" and Abram went, so he had, with their goods, with their cattle, with his wife , his nephew Lot and left without direction, without knowing whither he went, he went as a pilgrim and stranger, he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is Yahweh, because Abram came out with a word from God, having heard the voice of God fighting the desert, fighting the uncertainty by addressing the criticism, opposition, struggle, moved the test because, as seeing the invisible, because they want a better country, a heavenly country ... and it was reckoned as righteousness, the Peshitta reads: "... he was regarded as righteousness" as Yahweh our Elohim spoke to him saying: "... I took you ... to give you this land to possess it ..." and he believed by faith in a God who did not know but was known God, but God was being revealed by justice, by grace through faith, love, taking into account the ultimate plan of salvation that would include not only the Jews but to all races around the world including our own. And so it was changed Abram's name to Abraham (father of multitudes) knowing our Lord and God that he was going to be a prophetic foreshadowing of good things to come, because in the very life of Abraham was given a trial of sacrifice same redemption, when he had to offer his only son to prove obedience and faith in God, but just at the moment when Abraham was going to run, to pass on to slay his son, an angel stopped him and Provia a lamb a year to act as the perfect sacrifice for the salvation of the descendants of Abraham.

So Abraham's seed future generations were developed, many slaves, many of the lineage of kings, many psalmists and prophets, many servants, many free, but above all and first of all, that seed was born the Anointed of God, Messiah, the Christ, Jesus our savior. 42 generations after Jesus was born about 2500-2900 Abraham years after Abraham left the path of humanity to give input to the redemptive work plan concocted in eternity and for these dates of Tishri was born in a village in Bethlehem and Jesus Christ Heaven rejoiced and the stars aligned and the angels sang on high saying, "on earth peace, good will toward men" because the King of Kings was born, the just, who is Faithful and True and there is that part of the Romans when he says, by faith in Christ: "... you have been grafted into the holy root, to be partaker of the root and fatness ..." so do not be arrogant (do not mock God, do not mock the grace that Jesus gave you, do not play to be a Christian day and one not), but fear and believe, because if God did not spare the natural branches were incredulous and arrogant but the breakage and spared not the angels but the rebels out of her presence, you will not be human, a little lower than the angels, so believe and fear. Do not be mistaken as the Jews say: "is that we still have the ruins of <Grand Templo>" or even say "we are children of Abraham and have never been slaves of anyone," nor would it say, "We we have the Torah ... "Do not be like them but take example of not even having those material things or that arrogance can be saved, because if salvation is from the Jews ( John 4.22 ) but not exclusively Jewish, and therefore we can not say, "you if you are saved and you do not" or "to go to the temple and I am saved" or maybe "for carrying the Bible or call <cristiano> am saved" NO! No we are not arrogant brothers, because salvation is by grace through faith, believing and the works of salvation come later, not human works that is not because saving you load a Bible or Christian or whatever your name have come to the Temple or a fish in your car, but it is by believing in the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, to obey his commandments, to do righteous deeds active in the faith (eg construction of justice: come to the temple tithing, preaching the gospel, to give good Christian witness in my life).

At this time we are in a crucial, very important, where to be tested our faith, our life, our bodies, our economies. Who will really bear fruit? Who will be the truth that are called chosen ones, holy, true? Who are those whom God has prepared them rich and great promises? A: At the saved, the true Christians, who truly love God and believe in God and want to see his glory, as if at this crucial time in our history momentous thing you put the Lord will give you twice ... brother Know that if you give something to God, He is not going to defraud, is not going to leave just because He is with you and as he told Joshua: "... as I was with Moses, will be with you I will never leave nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Be strong and very courageous ... " Joshua 1.5-7

And what is our mission? BELIEVE, talk, act, work through FAITH! John 20.31 "But these things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name", if you believe and confess (speak) you life (ie salvation) and living the "Act" the "exercise" in the Christian life "live it" and part of the essential foundation which is based on the life of a true Christian is the certainty that you move like seeing the invisible, who is not afraid to speak because the Holy Spirit gives you what you need to be spoken, then you are an instrument of His glory and magnificence, are an instrument of power, anointing of redemption, you are living a Cristiana> <Vida, not you rely on psychology books in the Bible but do not have to see the horoscope or read charts or you're searching coffee because the Holy Scriptures which make you wise and saved by faith in Christ Jesus, do not speak lies or nonsense, or words of double meaning because of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks and if Jesus is in your heart speak of love, justice and truth, if you are Christian and live a Christian life life and find pleasure and delight in the depth of the mysteries of the Bible, in communion with God through prayer and not the vices, no need to smoke or take drugs alcoholizarte or unclean or party to another because you found the source of life in the presence of God in the things of God, in communion with God when you live Christianity <superiores> things happen, things go <sobrenaturales> do not need to be sponsored by evil spirits or mediums or mantras or many other things created by Satan because you are with Jesus Christ, when Christianity live by faith confess all his promises and believe in the acquisition of land, a glimpse of the temple built and rejoice in your God your God which worketh all things perfect.

Abraham believed and it was accounted for justice and even he had moments of weakness, had moments of doubt, had moments of loneliness, pain, YES! He was human, a man with a passion, but above all, never stopped believing in him who rescued him and released him, never stopped talking to God in those times of trial, even came to ask God (perhaps boldly) c. 15 v. 8 "... Lord God, how I know that I shall inherit it?", speaking of the fulfillment of the promises, talking about the land he had to possess, in other words Abraham was asking God how I take possession? How will I know I will have possession?, What was God's response? A: Bring an offering (v. 9), God asked Abraham to five specific things: a heifer, a goat, a ram, a turtledove and a pigeon. Asked why so? Why not ask God to Abraham more? Abraham was very rich in cattle, had servants, had wheat seeds, crops, why God did not ask for 50% of everything he had? In the Old Testament, the Torah was a series of offerings that the people of Israel had to carry the propitiation, with the pigeons and doves the simplest of all, even our Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 10 refers to this than " quarter "will buy two sparrows, and" the most humble gift "that the widow gave the offertory was the most abundant in heart because he gave everything he had, because it was their livelihood.

The order in the Torah was given a lamb for sacrifice, but if not, it could give a goat, if there was no money for that was to be a dove or a pigeon, but the order was GIVING. What does this mean? When Abraham asked God how I was going to own everything promised, God asked him everything I had, everything he owned, was not yet Isaac, God asked him a gift, the best he had, asked GIVE heart , in obedience to the largest offering was a heifer, then a goat then a ram, a turtledove, and then finally a palomino, later in the Torah this classification was made for all to offer to God an offering simple yet very this was and the people obeyed and even today (in his defection, their exclusion, in his absence) the Jews are the most prosperous of all the world. How so! YES! brothers, because even though they offered out of habit or mechanism, are thriving because they offer it to God, offered to God on their work, their effort, their dedication, but little or how much they give to God Almighty.

But there was something more "... Abraham broke the heifer, the goat and the lamb ..." should have blood was a symbol of the promise, which was a symbol of the fulfillment of the covenant and the blood spilled on the ground I was standing as a symbol of possession, and you do not have to go desangrarte because you have been sealed with the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ shed on the cross so that we can confess his promise when he says: "... and every place whereon the sole of your foot will be yours ..." because you sealed with the precious blood of the Lamb who has been the salvation, ie are tattooed with their blood and that leads you to unimaginable places and makes you walk the heights, and even the scripture says that birds of prey came down to steal to scavenge the offering and Abraham Abraham drove them away until they got tired of the sun and fell asleep ... then he fell on fears of a great darkness, the Peshitta separates them and says, "... and behold, he suffered fear and great darkness. "Have I ever mentioned this, when Solomon asked for wisdom came a dark, when Moses asked to see the glory of God, a shadow covered him when Mary received the 24th chromosome of the Spirit came upon it a shadow, when the Jesus was transfigured Lord came a shadow that covered the mountain where they were ... What does this mean? I can interpret what it is: That in the darkest moment, the moment of greatest pain, when we are about to lose hope, when we found that longer response and feel that everything is finished and that the world is upon us ... there is God, there is the hand of God, there is the answer of God ... What happened?, do raptors fouled the offering or stolen?, is the offering Abraham was unsuccessful?, does God allow evil upon Abraham? A: NO! At that time when the forces are over, when they succumbed appeared humanly mighty hand of God, God spoke to Abraham and one of the symbols of the Holy Spirit manifested His power and omnipresence, says v.17 and early 18 "And it happened that, when the sun, and it was dark, it was a smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abraham ... "

When Abraham was God's forces eventually drove the prey and a flaming torch (symbol of the Holy Spirit) is said, happened, happened and passed the torch was walking among the animals offered up ... you want to know what it means? God is with you, the precious Holy Spirit is with you, it manifests in your life in your obedience to your offerings, the day that you run out of strength to keep going and you do not have hope, maybe you get a great darkness and uncertainty or discouragement or sadness or loneliness ... but God says: "... FEAR NOT ..." because I ahuyentaré the plundering of your offerings, "... DO NOT FEAR ..." For the day you bring your offerings simple or heavy I am with you and multiply you, "... NO ISSUES ..." yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness, even when you pass through the oven because the oven steaming means test, ie passes the test when I am with you "... NO ISSUES ... "! Because I happen to like those three young men who were thrown alive into the furnace tied for Nabucco fire in the fire were not consumed, in the midst of the destruction were head-up and security of their victory was with them and saw the glory of God when our Lord Jesus Christ said to them ... "... NO ISSUES ..." Ebenezer, because your dress or even a fire or smell smoke, because the Lord your God is with you.

He says the song of the little "my God is so big, so strong and powerful ... there is nothing that He can not do ..." What we have to do to us? BELIEVE! For God establishes his covenant, to fulfill their promises, what we have to do to us? Acting as Christians, talk like Christians, do as Christians, have a true testimony of faith conviction of certainty ... and when you miss your strength, know that the Holy Spirit will walk among you, over you, with you so that scatter them which he did his work the torch of fire coming towards the four corners of the earth spreading the blood of sacrifice, offering a symbol of blessing and prosperity and spreading the blood symbol of salvation that our Lord Jesus Christ gave us the yyy days Yahweh made a covenant with his servant. Today could be the day for your life, now may the Lord make a covenant with you if you're willing to do with it ... the prophet says: "... Turn us to you (JHVH) and we will ..." he has power, he is God almighty. So do not fluctuate, not claudiques not get entangled with the things of the world, do not cares for the evils of life, not faithless but believing, believe God, the one true God and find happiness, joy, peace , prosperity and all the desires of your heart as you land that the Lord Almighty has given you so that you overcome and destroy them: fear (HETE), irresponsibility (Gergesite), the talk or false testimony (Amorite) the immoral or impure (Canaanite), to the torment and bitterness (Perizzites), which has no direction or destination are perdidos> <que (Hevea) and the rebellious and violent (Jebusite) symbolized by all these nations described at the end of this chapter 15. God has given them and says Deuteronomy 7.1-2 that when they are ahead of us we should not have mercy on them but we must destroy them completely, we must not make an alliance but must be unforgiving for God to fulfill His promises to us. Where are these nations? Brethren, are demons represented in many people around us or even bonds that many have in their lives and lead to destruction vice hell. If you have something like throw it away, destroy, we must not reconcile Defeat with it, if there comes a situation or circumstance or even a person even if your family member get away with something destroyed, expires in the name of Jesus. Only then will inherit the great and precious promises to become partakers of the divine nature in Christ Jesus.

And believe in God, that you believe is counted for righteousness, testifying that believing the promises of God in him are yea, and amen to the glory of his name.

Deuteronomy 7.6-9

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